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Why I use Fastmail.com
- four 12y agoYes, I use FastMail, too. Who would use Gmail, when you can pay a pittance and keep strangers the F out of your business? I pay for the performance and ease, too. The privacy comes in the bargain. +1.
- duncan_bayne 12y ago+1 from another happy paying Fastmail customer :)
- brongondwana 12y agoAvatar support with contacts should be coming along with CardDAV pretty soon. I'm working on speeding up the backend for that right now. (paragraph formatting isn't my department) Thanks for the nice article :)
- darkpicnic 12y agoThanks for the heads up! CardDAV was a big deal for me. Thanks for implementing it!
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- general_failure 12y ago+1 for "I'm their customer, not the advertisers". I am moving away from gmail myself.
- RexRollman 12y agoBecause my needs are modest, I went with the $20 per year account and I am quite happy with it.
- tdkl 12y agoI wish they had a package offering between 1GB and 15GB.
- christophersu 12y agoSame. I wish there were a plan that allowed use of a custom domain but had less space.
- risk000 12y agoyeah fastmail rocks. I can confirm this.
- zafiro17 12y agoBig fan of Fastmail and have been a customer for ten years now, with no complaints. An example of the cool team behind it, too: I once hacked up a Perl script that would access my Fastmail addressbook over their LDAP interface. It was giving me trouble, and when I submitted a help ticket the guy who answered me actually fixed the Perl on my behalf. (Not linking to the code anymore since it's out of date, but I remember thinking, that is some awesome customer service). Other pluses: limited file storage you can access over webdav, a good history of communication with the customer including interesting blog posts, family accounts that allow you to share contacts and messages, and standards-client IMAP that means you don't need a special app to read their mail; any IMAP client will do. This article got the big picture right (you're the customer, not the target, etc.) but could have been more detailed in what's provided when you are a customer. By the way, I know they're rolling out carddav and caldav systems for calendar and contacts, but in the meantime, the perfect partner for Fastmail in my opinion has been Fruux, which offers caldav/carddav contacts and calendar that syncs across any device, with similar customer service. I'm happy to pay for both because it means I'm not tied to any particular company, even if they back the hardware (Google/Android, Apple/iOS). Independence is worth the money, in my opinion and experience.
- _chinchillin 12y agoI'm looking to move off of Gmail and this looks like an awesome value. Going to try the trial but I might grab the $20 before it ends
- artsyca 12y agoIs there a way to migrate a grandfathered apps email to this but still use the account to access Google services like the Play store?
- t0mislav 12y agoI chosed Zoho mail over Fastmail, but not sure if this was good idea. Webmail is so 90s, and spam control is too agressive at Zoho. Will try today new Fastmail webmail.
- tdkl 12y agoZoho has been a PITA for last couple days. ActiveSync push email is broken and support is parroting the same line over and over in the forums that the operations should be normal. It's also a half assed ActiveSync without Outlook support and they don't have CalDAV and CardDAV as an alternative either. I guess you get what you pay for.
- known 12y agoRegistrant Name: Admin Domain Registrant Organization: Outblaze Limited Registrant Street: Unit 411-415, Cyberport 1 Registrant Street: 100 Cyberport Road Registrant City: Hong Kong Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code: NA Registrant Country: Hong Kong Registrant Phone: +852.25341222 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: domain-admin@outblaze.com
- wodenokoto 12y agoAre there any neat things I can do with the web site functionality? Or is it static HTML only?
- darkpicnic 12y agoStatic. Nice for simple blogs. Even has the ability to target a folder of images and create a simple slideshow.
- webjames 12y agoI'm curious - i know the purpose of the blog post was not to get people to use your referral link, but have you seen anyone sign up after reading your post?
- darkpicnic 12y agoI had 3000 views of this post, out of those I've received 2 confirmed referrals, totaling ~$9 in payouts. Obviously, not much, but I'm still impressed I got _any_ referrals.